It does matter. Qi2 is based on Qi, period. Qi 1 was not thrown out and "replaced" with MagSafe-- MagSafe was just a brand name of a Qi superset.
Next time you merge any pull request into your project (especially a tiny one adjusting some UI spacing), should I come on Hacker News and repeatedly insist you had nothing to do with the project's development and the person who wrote that PR really deserves all the credit? That's the metaphor cptskippy was using. You're making it out to be a "ship of Theseus" situation when it's not.